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Family life events provide us with what are often rare opportunities to recall and share old memories and create new ones. Aside from the occasional grumpy uncle or snooty cousin without whom we could live life perfectly well, there is no one with whom we'd rather be than family. My mother was fond of saying: "Remember. Alan, family comes first." On the slightly funnier side were the words of my late dear friend Tony Mazzulla: "Family is the lasagna of life-all of life's goodness on a fork." I'd like you to consider this pithy morsel: 'We often find underlying lessons and truths not far beyond the tip of our noses.' Accordingly, I have...

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Family life events provide us with what are often rare opportunities to recall and share old memories and create new ones. Aside from the occasional grumpy uncle or snooty cousin without whom we could live life perfectly well, there is no one with whom...

Even though fall leaves fill the air, a myriad of opportunities abound for enrichment, education and fun at Congregation Or Shalom.
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L'Chaim Center; take two.
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